Interviews with Scientists

Why does a gaming app needs to know your location? It might be tracking you - even when you're not using it - and...

Most of us know we need antivirus software on our PCs, but what about our phones? Why do we need to protect them and...

Parkinson's Disease is extremely hard to diagnose but scientists have been trialing a breath test in mice, which...

This month, Cambridge scientists are battling it out in an effort to become the city's FameLab champion! We hear...

Scientists have found the best evidence yet that the centre of our galaxy contains significant amounts of dark matter.

What makes some violins sound better than others? To find out, physicists have subjected hundreds of the instruments to...

A self-regulating insulin molecule, that works by sensing blood sugar levels, could revolutionise type 1 diabetes...

How leaving your WiFi 'on' is haemorrhaging personal information to the world, like where you eat, sleep and...

We explore how maths can define attraction, organise the wedding, and even help maintain love long-term!

What information is emanating from your armpits and what does it reveal to a potential partner about you?

The way a woman sounds varies with her menstrual cycle and is an unconscious indicator of fertility...

Do online dating sites really work? Could we use clever computing to create the ultimate super-profile to help meet...

Researchers take a red pen to the explanation for one of the most famous school chemistry experiments in which sodium...

How sperm gear themselves up to fertilise an egg is very difficult to study. But now remote controlled sperm shed light...

Would a Scottish chimp and Dutch chimp be able to converse with one another?

Electronic devices with bright screens could be disrupting the sleep patterns of teenagers...

The House of Commons voted by 382 to 128 to allow mitochondrial donation through a controversial amendment to...

Researchers at Imperial College are unpicking how faults in a giant gene called Titin can cause heart disease.

Cathie Martin is using GM technology to make even healthier fruit and veg, including some striking purple tomatoes.

To take a look at the science of GM behind the hype and headlines, I spoke to Professor Jonathan Jones at the...

Switching off the RFRP3 gene in the hypothalamus prevents stress-induced infertility in rats.

Learning more about how enzymes work could lead to the design of new enzymes.

Dopamine drives an "ultradian" clock with a period of around four hours in mice.

Specially protected messenger RNA molecules allow hibernating squirrels to warm up quickly.